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LOUNGE. No. 373,977'. Patented Nov. '29. 1887.

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.UNITED STATES PATENT Orricn.

GEORGE HOFFMAN, OF MOUNT VERNON, NEW YORK.

LOUNGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 373,977, dated November 29, 1887,

l Application filed December 2l, 1886. Serial No. 222,214. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatl, GEORGE HOFFMAN, of Mount Vernon, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Lounge, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a lounge having a reversible back, so that when desired the lounge may be easily and quickly changed from a right to a left hand lounge, or vice versa.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of the various parts. as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view ofA my improved lounge. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the back. of the lounge. Fig. 3 is an end view showing a modified form of levers, parts being broken away. Fig. 4 is a sectional view A on the line x x of Fig. 2.

A designates inthe .drawings the frameof the lounge, B the legs thereof, and C the arm- (Shown in dotted lines.) This rest C is' made separate from the frame A, so that it can be removed to allow of the back being swung vover from side to side. The frame A is to be provided with the usual springs and upholstery. 4

Passing through the longitudinal center of the frame A is a shaft, D, which is journaled in the ends of the frames. and supported in grooves in the cross-slats a. This shaft has the spur-wheels b mounted thereon.

The slides E, which support the back, pass through the frame of the lounge from side to sido and have upwardly-projecting lugs E', which are adapted to t into recesses c. 'Ihese recesses c are on both sides of the frame A, so that when the lugs E on the slide E pro- ;5 ject from one side of the lounge those on the opposite side fit snugly into the recesses c, thus preserving the harmony of thefancywork which may be on the frame A. The slides E are bent up at their centers, as at d,

the levers G, which are attached to the back F of the lounge. Thus when the back is swung over from right to left, or vice versa, the levers G cause the shaft D to rotate for the purpose of moving the slides from side to side, as above described.

The ends of the shaft D pro- The levers G in Fig. l have eyebolls H, the I eyes h of which work up and down on rodsi in the ends of the back F. By this arrangement the back F may be swung over without impediment from the levers G, as the bolt H will slide up and down the rod i when the back is being swung over.

In Fig. 3 I have shown the levers G having elongated slots j, in which the pivots 7c on the back F of the lounge work, substantially for the same purpose.

The back F is made, with a view to ornamentation, with one part or section, f', lower than the other section,f. In order to have the back F correspond in this respect when thrown from one side to the other, the section what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with the frame and the hinged back, of the levers carrying supports which slide into and out of the frame, providing for receiving the normally lower edge of 3. In a lounge, the swinging back F, made the back between the frame and supports, subsubstantially of the sections f and f', the secro stantially as and for the purpose set forth. tion f adapted to slide on and arranged lower 2. The combination, with the frame A, of than the section f, as described. 5 the back F, levers G, shaft D, carrying spur- GEORGE HOFFMAN.

wheels b. sliding supports E, having lugs E', Vitnesses: and teeth e, substantially as shown and de- EDGAR TATE, scribed.. ED. M. CLARK. 

